John Summerfield wrote:
I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have similar stories. How many users use all CentOS releases?
I totally agree John - as CentOS gets more popular i too have found myself using 'Mark folder as Read' too often.
This is a good thing. I've just left the Fedora Core mailing lists (users & devel) and the traffic didn't bother me at all. It's a great
Not everyone can have such a fine Internet connexion.
There's always gmail if you'd rather have a web interface and not worry about the bulk of messages you skip.
Splitting by version is usually a bad idea. It causes things to split, people post the wrong version information to the wrong lists and it becomes a PITA. Hell, I've noticed enough people whinge and moan about top posting... Imagine that on someone posting a v5 question to a v4 list!
I thought it worked very well indeed with Red Hat Linux. I note that Red Hat continues with that plan with RHEL.
What happens if the person who knows the answer to a version 3 question has moved on to version 4? Or questions about the 90+% of things that are identical across all unix-like systems?